That's a neat, rare find, but this track is from their first self-titled album. Look for Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung. Of that album, there are two versions available: the home-spun release with photos of commando style band members, but after the band decided to get on Sony Classical's label, the album was re-released: with the photos replaced by a picture of maggots.

Well, the David Byrne/St. Vincent album is current, and has some very cool horn arrangements.

There are also many guitarists putting out perfectly good albums (Oz Noy, Scott Henderson, etc.).

Some of the alternative bands are pretty good.

Tin Hat and Carla Kilstadt and their offshoots (spelling?) have put out consistently good stuff.

Granted, it's slim pickings, but if you look you'll find some nice stuff. If we don't battle the natural complacence in ourselves, we'll become dinosaurs. But if anyone is hoping to find an equivalent to Frank, well, I don't really think it can happen twice in a lifetime....

_________________Everytime we picked a booger we'd flip it on this one winduh. Every night we'd contribute, 2, 3, 4 boogers. We had to use a putty knife, man, to get them damn things off the winduh. There was some goober ones that weren't even hard...

I think I was wondering more about 'contemporary classical' music (I know that is almost a contradiction in terms).

well i've been listening to a lot of john adams lately, including this 2012 release:

also this a lot, even though it's from 1996:

if you're interested, there's a radio station in princeton,nj, wprb, where every wednesday morning is devoted largely to 20th-21st century music. the show is called classical discoveries with marvin rosen, from 5:30am to 11:30 am est, and then classical discoveries goes avant-garde from 11:30am-1pm est. links are below. the shows can be streamed.

Hey Quilt, there's probably little point in asking me. If you remember FZ, fairly early in his career, said he'd stopped listening to much other music because he wanted to develop his own voice. Well, I'm no FZ, but I'm a composer and I take my own music seriously and I don't have much time any more to investigate other music. Most of the time I have spare for music I spend working on my own compositions. I'm aiming to get a band together and playing gigs before 2013 is finished and that's just step one if I can manage it.

Watch this space! (or not if you don't like my music)

_________________The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

If it's modern classical you are looking for, I don't know much, but I do enjoy Elvis Costello's Il Sogno, with Tilson-Thomas. If you like that, you might want to check out his Juliet Letters with the Brodsky Quartet.

The 'contemporary classical' music I sample sounds like "movie music" or "television music" or "music made for commercials.Maybe I too am jaded by FZ's styles but I just haven't found a "breakthrough" composer.Somebody needs to find the notes that haven't been played yet!

Hey Quilt, there's probably little point in asking me. If you remember FZ, fairly early in his career, said he'd stopped listening to much other music because he wanted to develop his own voice. Well, I'm no FZ, but I'm a composer and I take my own music seriously and I don't have much time any more to investigate other music. Most of the time I have spare for music I spend working on my own compositions. I'm aiming to get a band together and playing gigs before 2013 is finished and that's just step one if I can manage it.

I see between 40-50 concerts a year, the vast majority of them are with bands that came out within the past 5-12 years. So anyone claiming "There's no good music anymore," while hiding their head in a '1964-1977 hole in the sand,' is just plain lazy.

So anyone claiming "There's no good music anymore," while hiding their head in a '1964-1977 hole in the sand,' is just plain lazy.

I may be wrong, but I understood Quilt's initial message differently, because he was talking about someone "pushing the boundaries".Methinks he meant that it was more and more difficult to find unanimously recognized key composers that were experimenting real structural evolutions and influencing their future (such as Bach, Beethoven, Ligeti, Zappa (although not unanimously recognized whatever), etc).So I suspect he was looking for something different than 3 minutes 20 seconds calibrated industrial radio music in 4/4 and C major ... although this is not at all a criteria for bad music.Maybe we do not focus on the structure of music anymore and are more interested in inventing new processes or instruments to produce and share music.

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